Yoshinori Mizutani is a japanese photographer born in 1987 in the Prefecture of Fukui. He lives and works in Tokyo.

Graduated from Nihon University College of Economics in 2010 and Tokyo College of Photography in 2012, Mizutani has won a number of prestigious awards including Japan Photo Award in 2013. Recently he had exhibited in Antwerp and Tokyo.

«When I saw the hundreds of parakeets that abound in the sky, I felt fear. I felt as if I had entered the Alfred Hitchcock film "The Birds". Each morning parrot swarms invade an elm near my home in Setagaya (Tokyo District). I did some research and discovered that these parrots were introduced in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s from the tropical regions of India and Sri Lanka to be sold as pets. Since then they have gone wild and are established in the Tokyo area. Today there are thousands.

These parakeets should not exist in Tokyo, but are still living here. This intense and strange feeling I felt when I first saw the cloud, I have captured in these photographs.»

«When I entered university, I really had no interest in photography. Zero. By chance, my university was located near Jimbo-cho, Tokyo's district for vintage book stores. I began to haunt these book stores regularly.

One day, I encountered a photobook by Robert Frank. It was totally shocking and fresh for me. His photographs were absolutely great and completely different from any photography I had seen up to that point.

I had never, ever expected to become an artist originally. But thanks to this encounter, photography has become the best way for me to express myself.»

«Colors started in 2010, almost exclusively in and around Tokyo. The project began when I started exploring my surroundings with a greater attention to detail. The harder I looked, the more I realized how much I was overlooking. I came to be drawn towards the things that we rush past in our everyday lives. I was especially drawn by shapes — and color.»

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